[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

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Dark Thing Round 2

(...)

Pixie and Whimsicott also fail in their actions against the target, while the darkness whispers, "FUTILITY!'

Mikey, however, predicted what would happen and transforms his action into an Evasion should he be targeted.

"READY? HERE I COME.... FROM OVER HERE....NO, OVER HERE!"

(...)

Dark Spell 2
(1)(3) You hear Arachnautilus swearing vehemently. "We have to stop it ASAP! Its power is growing!


"YOU DARE???"

(...)

Phantom Force 4 on Rose
(4)(6)(4)(4)(5)(4) (2) Crit
(5)(6)(6)(5)(3)(5) (3)(4)(6) Rose faints. In unconsciousness, her flame burns brightly enough to actually illuminate the scene, and you wish it didn't. Now everyone can see the horrid blackness, the smooth immaculate shell, the glaring eyes, the carpet of spikes, the neurotoxins dripping from a forest of razor sharp teeth.
You can see the beast has grown bigger and stronger, too, though it's moving a bit more slowly. It is also raging, due to a few cracks in its shell where a black gas is leaking out.

(...)

The spiral Shellder appears on the far side of Whimsicott. It shudders once, then vomits up more toxic darkness from its maw. Half-disintegrated portions of its fragile inner surface slide in the slime. The darkness begins slowly fading, revealing first Rose, then the sleeping bodies of the Frillish and Jellicent, then the remnants of Dazzling Gleam. Dark Shellder faints.

Lastly, you see the glass walls revealed, and Posei & Gustav & Co tapping on the glass and pointing excitedly. They're swimming in naturally-dark waters and they couldn't be more delighted to show you what they've found. Unfortunately, it's not visible from the angle within the dark glass spheres.

There's lots of sunken treasure down here, though! In the glass spheres and the tunnels connecting to the sunken ships, you find a medchest containing 5 Revive, 10 Potions, 5 Super Potions, 1 Hyper Potion. There are also thousands and thousands of Pokedollar worth of seaborn treasure, anything that might wash up from the subterranean streams that now feed the Well after the cataclysmic battle. Jewelry, amulets, golden religious symbols, coins, valuable old tools. A set of gold teeth. A golden eye. Archaeological artifacts from every era. Gold, gold, and more gold! But nowhere any sign of a Hauberk.

All the gold together is worth a startling $200,000!

Though the oppressive Darkness constantly tried to crush his Will and prey on his weakness. Terra refused to yield to that abomination again, defiantly crying out against it!

"NO! DARKNESS WILL. BE. UNMADE! GOOD AND LIGHT. WILL. PREVAIL! YOUR DEFEAT NOT FUTILE! IT IS.....INEVITABLE!"

Mikey and Pixie answer in unison with their partner, their own angry, energetic cries rallying behind his own as they re-doubled their efforts to waste that Dark Thing. Both of them ate Dark Types for breakfast and had their own suite of dastardly tricks that could screw anything up to a Legendary Pokemon, so they were NOT afraid of It. No.....it should be afraid of them!! OOOORAAAAH, HEEE HAAA!

Despite the intense clash of heroics vs. Darkness occupying everyone's attention, though, Terra still had enough presence of mind to admonish Arachnautilus for swearing! Seriously.

"Language, Arachnautilus!"

Some of the sagely monk's bravado dried up when he finally got a decent look at the monster that startled him earlier, though decent was the very last thing you'd called its teneborous form. That.....that thing was truly a Demon of Darkness, and it needed to be stopped. Perhaps FOREVER, if necessary....

Fortunately, his fervent desires became reality when that Dark Shellader's life was sapped away by Poison and fell, taking with it the Darkness that tried its best to swallowing him and his friend up, and failed. When he could at last see everyone, the mountain of a man swept shared with them a proud grin, his gaze stressed, strained, but filled to the brim with satisfaction as he nodded.

"We did it. We banished the Dark, and brought back the light. Good job, everyone."

And that, was that!

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Seems reasonable!

Pokeball: (6)(1) v (2)

Gotcha! Dark Slowpoke was caught!
After a couple hours in the Pokeball, these will be Slowpoke's stats:
+2 HP surprise
0/0/2
Dark Pulse, Beat Up, Yawn, Curse of either type, Disable, Headbutt, Zen Headbutt, Amnesia, Future Sight, Icy Wind

What's next? Resting? Following Posei & Gustav? Looking for the next layer?

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I up for following Posei and Gustav. Unless everyone wants to rest after such difficulty battle?
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"I actually need this the most," Spira picks up the Hyper Potion, "So, if you don't mind..." he adds it to his inventory.

Concerning the gold, is it bullion/something that'd have to be sold for its value, or something that could easily be used in place of pokedollars? If the former, then Spira has no problems with Terra holding on to the gold (provided he mentions IC that he'd be the best choice for selling off that gold), if the latter is the case, then let's go ahead and split that dough up!

Well, not quite. Their was still the matter of what to do about Dark Shellder and its gang, of course, and also with all the treasure + their aquatic brethren's deep water discoveries.

Initially, Terra was going to Capture or kill both Dark Slowpoke and Shelldar, but Shiva forestalled his attempts by asking if she could acquire the later herself, to which he hesitantly and reluctantly agreed to. He didn't like the idea of the mystical lass handling something so blatantly evil and corrupting as that blacker than usual bivalve at all, but he wouldn't deny her the right to do so. She had proven amply that she could survive the worst challenges and endure the harshest happenstances time and time again, so he felt that the fae lady both earned and deserved the right to own such a creature. Besides, they'd be sent to the PC anyway for containment, so it's not like she had to deal with them now, nor couldn't he still help her out with them regardless (if she allowed).

So in the end he only caught Dark Slowpoke, which was promptly sent to the PC for treatment/containment. He already had one atypical sloth to bond with that he liked much more than the other, so away they go! Still.....that Slowpoke......hm...

Concerning the Medical Supplies, he just takes 1 Potion + Revive for himself and leaves the rest to be divvied up by the group, only requesting from the others that 2 Potions, 1 Super Potion, and 1 Revive be given to Nathan later. They needed the supplies as much as anyone else, so he didn't wish to deny them of their bounty even though they didn't contribute to their previous fight and subsequent exploration. He also requests he take all the Valuable Loot so he could sell it later and split the profits with everyone, mentioning that he had experience conducting such large scale transactions and knows how to get the most Poke out of their bounty. He was full on Business Mode as he said this, which Shiva and Spira could easily recall was a rather.....distinctly mercantile and a stark contrast from his simple, stoic, but good hearted nature, so it shouldn't take much to convince them he meant what he said.

Finally, Terra would take out the radio Cosh gave him earlier and get in touch with them if possible, saying thus: "Cosh, Posei, Arete, and Gustav found something that has them excited. Its location.....[Gives a rough description of where he/the group currently was at in the Slowpoke Well Chasms] . Would you meet up with them, and.....find out what it is? Over." They had the ability to breathe/explore underwater, unlike the rest of the group, so he was pretty much the best choice to investigate the group's Water partner's discovery, whether they liked it or not.

Depending on what answer his arcane master of a partner gives (and what comes of their decision) will determine what else he wants to do. Except for this: Terra would give Nathan a full report of what he and the group discovered/Encounter in the Slowpoke Well Chasms ASAP, just to keep them in the loop and updated. Leaving them in the dark about all that would be a terribly unkind thing to do to them, after all!